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De Montfort University
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| Established | 1969 (as City of Leicester Polytechnic) |
| Type: | Public |
| Endowment: | £0.9 million [1] |
| Chancellor: | Baron Alli |
| Vice-Chancellor: | Professor Philip Tasker |
| Students: | 23,900 [2] |
| Undergraduates: | 19,460 [2] |
| Postgraduates: | 3,670 [2] |
| Other students: | 770 FE[2] |
| Location | Leicester, England |
| Affiliations: | Alliance of Non-Aligned Universities Association of Commonwealth Universities |
| Website: | http://www.dmu.ac.uk/ |
De Montfort University (DMU) is a British university situated in Leicester, England.
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De Montfort University, which is named after Simon de Montfort who was Earl of Leicester in the 13th century, is one of two universities situated in the city of Leicester.
Prior to 1992, that which is now De Montfort University was known as Leicester Polytechnic. It had been created in 1969 through the amalgamation of Leicester College of Technology and Leicester College of Art. The Polytechnic was established as a corporation in 1989.
The plan was to make DMU a multi-campus Collegiate University of the entire East Midlands and as such the University swiftly acquired other campuses based in Bedford, Luton, Lincoln, Caythorpe and Milton Keynes. The Milton Keynes campus had actually been built in 1991 and officially opened by Queen Elizabeth in 1992, prior to the official foundation of DMU as a New University. Departments at Milton Keynes included computing, built environment and business. DMU conducted a series of expansionist mergers with the Bedford College of Higher Education and with the Lincoln and Caythorpe Colleges in 1994 and then with the Charles Frears College of Nursing and Midwifery, based in Leicester, in 1995.
In the mid-1990s, DMU attracted students using a memorable TV and cinema advert that reputedly cost £500k featuring a killer whale chasing some seals on a beach. The tag line "Reserve your Seat of Learning Here" was read by Angus Deayton, implying that students should avoid letting life "chew them up" and improve their job prospects with a degree.
Today, De Montfort University has two campuses, Leicester City Campus and Charles Frears. The University has special arrangements with more than 80 universities and colleges in over 25 countries. It has approximately 20,500 students, 3,240 staff, and an annual turnover in the region of £132.5 million.[citation needed]
In 2001 the Board of Governors adopted a new strategy to do 'fewer things in fewer places' and reduce the number of outlying campuses[3]. DMU consolidated around its Leicester campus, with its satellite sites closed, or transferred to other institutions.
- The former Lincolnshire College of Art and Design and the Lincolnshire College of Agriculture, based in Lincoln and Caythorpe respectively, were merged with the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside to form the new University of Lincoln in 2001[4].
- Following the relocation to Leicester of many of the courses offered in Milton Keynes, the Kents Hill campus was considered economically unviable and was closed in 2003. The premises were sold to the Open University, with part of the campus now housing Middleton Combined School[5].
- The last remaining campus at Bedford, housing the Faculty of Education and Contemporary Studies , was merged with the University of Luton to become the University of Bedfordshire in 2006[6].
Currently De Montfort University has five faculties and one Institute:
- The Faculty of Art and Design (descended via the former Leicester Polytechnic from the old Leicester College of Art)
- The Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering (descended via the former Leicester Polytechnic from the old Leicester College of Technology)
- The Faculty of Health and Life Sciences (descended from the Charles Frears College of Nursing and Midwifery)
- The Faculty of Business and Law
- The Faculty of Humanities
- The Institute Of Creative Technologies (IOCT)
The Faculty of Art and Design boasts the only University courses in the world to specialise in lingerie, underwear, body-wear, swimwear and performance sportswear.[citation needed] These courses, which began immediately after the Second World War, have produced graduates who are greatly in demand. The Faculty also offers the only UK University courses in Footwear Design, courses in Product Design and both traditional and excitingly innovative courses in Fine Art and Architecture which have been researched, studied and taught in Leicester continuously for over 100 years.
The Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering offers courses across a range of animation, electronic games, information technology, robotics, telecommunications and video production.
The Faculty of Health and Life Sciences consists of four interconnected schools: Allied Health Sciences, Applied Social Sciences, Nursing and Midwifery and the Leicester School of Pharmacy. These interrelate so as to allow collaboration across subject boundaries in teaching, consultancy and research. Between them, the Schools cover Biomedical Science; Child, Adolescent and Family Therapy; Community Studies; Criminal Justice; Counselling and Psychotherapy; Criminology; Environmental Awareness; Management; Protection and Technology; Forensic Science; Health and Community Studies; Midwifery; Nursing; Pharmacy; Psychology; and Speech and Language Therapy.
The Faculty of Business and Law incorporates the Leicester Business School and the De Montfort Law School.
The Faculty of Humanities offers English, History and Politics degree courses and courses in Arts Management, Creative Writing, Dance, Drama, Education, Film, Globalisation, International Relations, Media and Music (including Technology and Innovation).
The Institute Of Creative Technologies (IOCT), which opened at DMU in 2006, undertakes interdisciplinary research in emerging areas at the intersection of Science, the Digital Arts and the Humanities.
On 20 April 2006, The Times Higher Education Supplement reported that first year pharmacy students in 2004 who underperformed in examinations were allowed to progress to the next year of the MPharm course at De Montfort University School of Pharmacy avoiding resits, despite concern from lecturers and external examiners. This followed from the release of documents of meeting minutes, in a ruling under the Freedom of Information Act 2000[7].
The Daily Telegraph reported that the University "has been caught lowering a pass mark to 26 per cent to prevent widespread failure of students, ... the proof that up to 14 per cent was arbitrarily added to the scores of trainee pharmacists to save the university's reputation has renewed concerns over the dumbing down of degrees in the move toward mass higher education."[8]
Subsequently, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain put the pharmacy course on a probationary status and required the University to implement a five-point action plan.[9]
- JS Clayden, Singer for Pitchshifter/owner of PSI Records
- Charles Dance, Actor.
- Alun Evans, Journalist, Football Association of Wales CEO and senior lecturer.
- Andy Gotts, Photographer.
- MJ Hibbett, Singer-songwriter.
- Geordan Murphy, Professional Rugby Union Player with Leicester Tigers and Ireland.
- Nicola Pellow, Web browser designer.
- Andrew John Reed, MP for Loughborough.
- Janet Reger, Iconic Lingerie Designer.
- Debbie Sell, Speech therapist.
- David Shrigley, Artist.
- Ken Shuttleworth, Architect.
- Angela Smith, MP for Sheffield Hillsborough.
- Simon Wells, Film Director
| This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2007) |
- ^ Financial Statements 2005-2006. De Montfort University. Retrieved on 2007-04-26.
- ^ a b c d Table 0a - All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2005/06. Higher Education Statistics Agency online statistics. Retrieved on 2007-03-31.
- ^ http://www.qaa.ac.uk/reviews/reports/institutional/demontfort/de_montfort.asp#45
- ^ http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/universities___colleges/east_midlands/de_montfort_university.cfm?content_tab=inside&expand=2&detail=1
- ^ http://www.stuff4schools.co.uk/3424.htm
- ^ http://www.push.co.uk/Uni_Profile.aspx?id=5E499CA9-312A-41FC-99EC-F19153F189DB
- ^ http://www.pjonline.com/Editorial/20060429/news/p493examresults.html
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/20/nuni20.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/20/ixhome.html
- ^ http://www.rpsgb.org.uk/pdfs/pr050524a.pdf
- De Montfort University – Official website
- De Montfort Students' Union – Official website
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